Terretand h itching-strap holder



(No Model.)

0. E. LAWSON. TERRET AND HITGHING STRAP HOLDER.

No. 447,958. Patented Mar. 10, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR E. LAW'SON, OF ALOESTER, SOUTH DAKOTA.

TERRET AND HlTCHlNG-STRAP. HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,958, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed July 5, 1890. Serial No. 357,920l. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR E. LAWSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Aleester, in the county of Union and State of South Dakota, have invented a new and useful Combined Terret and Hitching-Strap Holder, of which the following, taken in connection with the drawings, making part of same, is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is designed to form a simple and efficient means of securing the free end of the hitching-strap to harness when not used in tying the horse.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a terret constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the terret with the spring B broken away.

I attain my object by means of the terret A, having attached to the outside of its rounded surface, directly above the washerrim, a thin semicircular-shaped piece of spring steel or brass B, corresponding in width and outline to the terret used, and ex:

tending nearly or quite half-way around the terret. This piece of metal is secured to the base of the terret d irectlyabove the washer-rim by means of a small rivet or screw 0. It is also supported at or slightly below its center by means of a band or loop D, cast solid with the terret and passing around said spring B, leavingasmallopeningbetweenthespringand terret. At its upper end the spring B is bent or rolled out upon itself sufficiently to give an easy entrance for the strap. From the center D up the surfaces of spring and terret facing are creased or corrugated lengthwise to enable the spring to get a firmer grip on the strap when in place. The spring B is shaped and tempered, so that when in position the ends press firmly against the terret while the center, at D, tends outward. The strap, being admitted a convenient distance from the free end into the opening or mouth of spring and terret, is pressed in place with the fingers and, without tying the strap, the spring is intended to be sutficiently stiff to hold it automatically.

Importance is attached tothe form of the spring B, as by having the same normally in close contact with the outer face of the terret at a point near the free end of the spring the strap will be prevented from accidental displacement, while the more open space between the end of the spring and the part D allows the strap a limited movement. The corrugations upon the outer face of the terret serve, in conjunction with the spring B, to more securely retain the strap against displacement.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described combined terret and hitching-strap holder, the same consisting of the OSCAR-E. LAWSON.

\Vitnesses:

P. A. LAWSON, OHAs. A. BRANLUND. 

